> On Jan 5, 2020, at 12:40 AM, Mike Alexander <m...@umich.edu> wrote:
>
> When I tried to do my monthly import of an OFX file containing my TIAA/CREF
> transactions it failed miserably. I tracked it down to commit 7853f5a2 which
> changed the matching of online IDs for accounts to only match an initial
> substring of the required ID. My accounts are structured with a parent
> account in USD corresponding to a TIAA/CREF account and a sub-account under
> it for each asset in that account. The online ID for the parent account is
> something like "TIAA-CREF.ORG C8304GY8 RAM001 101011". The online ID for a
> sub-account storing an asset is created by appending the asset ID to the
> parent accounts online ID giving something like "TIAA-CREF.ORG C8304GY8
> RAM001 101011878094101". gnc_import_select_account does a linear search of
> all accounts in no particular order looking for one where the online ID
> matches in initial substring of the ID it wants. If it finds the parent
> account before the sub account it returns that and the process fails since
> it's the wrong currency. I
don't understand enough about the problem that commit is fixing to know how to
fix it without breaking things.
Mike,
Rats.
The problem the commit was trying to fix is that AQB 5.99 for FinTS uses a raw
SWIFT account code that for many German banks includes extra characters--often
a currency code--on the end. Some banks also pad the code with leading zeros
and a subsequent commit attempts to resolve that. This is
https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797432.
Regards,
John Ralls
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